Information Studies

Your future

Information shapes today's world. Become a specialist in retrieving and managing information. You will play a key role in governments, NGOs and businesses as an archivist, webmaster, research centre librarian, information broker or economic intelligence manager. Be at the very heart of the action !

The only course of its kind in French-speaking Switzerland

The only haute école to offer this kind of course, the HEG gives you access to a broad range of knowledge and skills that will be vital in your future profession. Our generalist, versatile, practice-focused course is grounded in theoretical and scientific foundations. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to manage documents, information and content in order to increase their value and make them accessible to third parties.

A range of skills

The main aims of this course are to enable you to adapt to a varied audience whose needs will differ depending on the context (professional life, leisure activities, training, press, business intelligence or technology), to develop a conceptual and strategic vision of information studies, to work independently and to be receptive to users' requirements.

As intermediaries between streams of information and users, information professionals must understand users' expectations and structure information in such a way that relevant data are easy to find.

Bilingual teaching

This course is available bilingually in French and German.

Course options

You have the option of studying this course part-time (over 4 years) or full-time (over 3 years). Upon successful completion of the course, you will be awarded the qualification of Bachelor of Science.